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Whole-genome sequencing of two multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated from a neonatal intensive care unit in Egypt: a prospective cross-sectional study

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Prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of uropathogens in men with prostate cancer and benign prostate hyperplasia from Southwestern Nigeria

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Effectiveness of selective antibiotics use in ESBL-related UTIs

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Role of tenofovir dipivoxil in gut microbiota recovery from HBV-infection induced dysbiosis

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Application of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for identification of Nocardia species

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The Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio of the human microbiota changes with age

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Fungal-specific PCR primers developed for analysis of the ITS region of environmental DNA extracts

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ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biases

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Protein secretion systems in bacterial-host associations, and their description in the Gene Ontology

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Standardisation of disk diffusion results for antibiotic susceptibility testing using the sirscan automated zone reader

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Current Research in Microbial Sciences

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Current Research in Microbial Sciences publishes original papers and short communications, review articles as well as graphical reviews that cover all aspects of the broad field of microbiology, the study of microorganisms, or microbes, a diverse group of unicellular organisms and subcellular genetic material, and their biological interactions with human beings and other life. Topics covered include:

• genetics; • metabolism: bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses; • environmental microbiology; • host-microbe interactions; • antimicrobials; • microbial systems biology; • biofilms; • microbiota.

Current Research in Microbial Sciences is a gold open access (OA) journal, which means articles are permanently and freely available. It is a companion to the highly regarded review journal Current Opinion in Microbiology and is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals . All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy-of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach-to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.

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The gut microbiota and its metabolite butyrate shape metabolism and antiviral immunity along the gut-lung axis in the chicken

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